licly owned and operated, where savings banks and a par-
cels express service are part of the postal system, and
where many other things are done as a matter of course
by the public which in many other countries would seem
revolutionary.

Mr. George arranged to write letters for "The Stand-
ard" as frequently as lecturing and the mails would per-
mit, but as a matter of fact, the campaign in Australia
proved to be so extraordinarily exacting that he was able
to write only irregularly and briefly.

The route lay by way of San Francisco. Mrs. George
accompanied him on this trip to her native Australia,
he playfully calling it their honeymoon. The truth was
that he had grown so dependent upon her companionship
that he would no longer consent to go far without her.
On the other hand, his preoccupation needed her atten-
tion, for she wrote back from St. Louis to their children:
"Your father this far on the journey has changed his
own for other people's hats only five times!"

Mr. George spoke at Bradford, Pennsylvania; Den-
ver, Colorado; and Los Angeles, California, on the way
to the Golden Gate. In each city he had large, appre-
ciative audiences. He also was induced during the few
hours' lie over in St. Louis, where they stopped to see
Sister Teresa, Mrs. George's sister, to accept a reception
and six o'clock dinner at one of the large commercial
clubs. It was a shining success, many of the representa-
tive men of the city being present, and as Mr. Keeler,
one of the managers on the occasion, sententiously said,
"twenty-five million dollars sitting down to table." All
along the line of travel across country friends came troop-
ing to the stations to greet the traveller, invariably bring-
ing word of progress by personal propaganda.

One of these incidents had a touch of pathos. It was

-523-